High VS Low Self Esteem: Part-2

There’s a regretful situation. You’re regretting because you somewhat think you’ve made a mistake. You feel like travelling back in time and correcting your decision. But obviously, you do not have the option. As we know, we have high self esteem on one hand and on the other hand we have low self-esteem ones. Question is how would they react to the situation?

But first let us talk about ‘inner child' . Every person has an inner child. This is defined differently by different people. Some relate to it as something like soul? Some say it's our consciousness? Whereas, some people literally say it's a child. This inner child is internal. It doesn’t have a physical structure, like the mind. The correlation is quite easy. We have a brain, mind, inner soul and body. While the mind and inner soul are not physical structures and they’re formed with us through the interactions and experiences that we have, the brain and body are external. They are body parts which are physically present in the human body. Whatsoever, this inner child can actually be thought to be a kid. A kid possesses innocence, curiosity, love and naivety. So does our inner child. This inner child deserves to be loved, cherished and nurtured. High self esteem people actually are masters at this. They very well know how to protect their inner child. Low self esteem people are poor at this. Unknowingly, they kill and torture their inner child.

Now back to our situation: ‘There’s a regretful situation. You’re regretting because you somewhat think you’ve made a mistake. You feel like travelling back in time and correcting your decision. But obviously, you do not have the option.’

High self esteem people vs low self esteem people.

Starting with high self esteem people, if they’ve ever made a mistake, they would never ever blame or torment themselves. They are very smart about this. They have a ‘so what?’ attitude but in a good way. Most importantly, they never beat themselves. They would follow an A & A model- Accept and Appreciate their mistake. They do not waste time and just move forward. They never kill their inner child. Their growth just exponentially increases. They learn, improve and move on.

Continuing with low self esteem people, they love to kill their inner child. They overthink, blame themselves and lower their self esteem, which is quite bad for them. They would torment the hell out of themselves. And their growth? It would only decline. They sweat, get tense, dive into anxiety and worry. A lot.

Their reactions are polar opposite.